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the ancient art of noticing you exist before the to-do list deletes you.
means The practice of paying calm, deliberate attention to the present moment — your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings — without judging them.
from An English coinage from 'mindful' (mind + the suffix -ful, meaning 'full of') plus '-ness.' The word existed in older English simply meaning 'attentiveness' or 'memory,' but its modern meditative sense was shaped in the early 20th century when scholars reached for it to translate the Pali word 'sati' — a key term in Buddhist practice meaning awareness or recollection. So an everyday English word was quietly drafted to carry a 2,500-year-old idea, and the translation stuck.
old rootsDerived from Buddhist sati, over 2,500 years old
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